Erik Middlebrooks

Happy New Year! 2024 was a great year full of adventures, discovery, and growth! Plenty of fun times, plenty of challenging times! Looking forward to the next year and wishing the best to everyone!

Our team is also growing & collaborations expanding, which is very exciting! Our clinical team has also grown with some of best #NeuroRads I’ve known—plus 4 more hires starting 2025 with 7 new MRIs (can’t wait to get hands on 2 new Cima.X scanners)! Stay tuned…2025 will be a big one! Happy Holidays!

Despite challenges, we had ~40 papers & able to share a lot of our experiences & developments. More importantly, I’ve seen tremendous success of many current & former mentees in their own careers—hard to express the pride and happiness I have for them!

Looking back on 2024, it was quite the journey! Easily 1 of most challenging years of research work, but also have seen my team at their finest! I can’t express my excitement to share things coming & progress made!

Fantastic @rsnasky.bsky.social session on #epilepsy by an all-star group Dhairya Lakhani, Noriko Salamon, Licia Luna, & Steve Jones covering all aspects of epilepsy imaging! #RSNA24

Thank you! 🙏

Very cool subthalamic lesion study relating anatomical location and connections to symptom-specific outcomes in PD: similar topographies as in my amazing colleague‘s @nanditharajamani.bsky.social recent work on symptom-specific DBS outcomes (doi.org/10.1038/s414...)

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Thank you, AuntMinnie, for this humbling recognition! I’m fortunate to have tremendous support from Mayo Clinic & a world-class research team that constantly challenges me. Most important thing I’ve learned is to surround yourself with people who share your ambition & vision!